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Here's a place to start:http://savvybookwriters.wordpress.com...
http://youngatink.wordpress.com/2013/...
Lila wrote: "Does anyone else hate writing blurbs? Or is it just me? Who has any great advice on writing a good one? I feel like mine are so contrived and not at all very indicative of the feel of the book. ..."Writing a book is easy in comparison!
Francis has provided some good links :)
Thank you for the links!I agree, writing a book seems like a piece of cake compared to making a good blurb. I could write bad one pretty easily too :)
Lila wrote: "Thank you for the links!I agree, writing a book seems like a piece of cake compared to making a good blurb. I could write bad one pretty easily too :)"
I hear you Lila! I recently read an article that seemed like good advice: "write your blurb, before you write your book."
In theory that's grand.
In reality - I've almost finished my next book.....and I'm still thinking about that statement! :)Lol.
That's an interesting theory. I probably write my blurb in my head prior to writing a novel, but committing it to paper, it all just flutters away :(
Lila wrote: "That's an interesting theory. I probably write my blurb in my head prior to writing a novel, but committing it to paper, it all just flutters away :("It's certainly difficult to condense 100,000 words into 300. I tend to stick with the main plot line only and break it into start, middle, end.
Here's mine on GoodReads (it's slightly out of kilter with the Amazon one, but the nuts & bolts are there!)
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...
I don't know if it's any good or not, but it's the best I could come up with for a complex 120,000 word novel with subplots :)
I'm not fond of blurb-writing either. I think it helps to check those of popular authors writing similar books, to see whether there's any type of general approach that seems to work well.
Quite often you get halfway through a book and realise that the blurb was written by someone who probably only read the first few chapters, and probably skimmed them as well.
Francis wrote: "Quite often you get halfway through a book and realise that the blurb was written by someone who probably only read the first few chapters, and probably skimmed them as well."Lol Francis - you know a blurb's really bad when you start wondering if it has another books cover on it!
I do spy a lot on what other authors in my genre have written. A lot of open ended questions seem to sell books.Bo, your blurb seems good to me - intriguing, descriptive - I think you did well!
Lila wrote: "I do spy a lot on what other authors in my genre have written. A lot of open ended questions seem to sell books.Bo, your blurb seems good to me - intriguing, descriptive - I think you did well!"
Kind of you to say so Lila - it took me almost as long to write as the book!
TIA!